Notes on a Zig Zag paper for Saturday: Travel by air has become an exasperating chore. Every item in my luggage was searched when leaving LAX a week ago; they opened every book, looked inside every shoe. The search took ten minutes and the line behind me for one flight was more than 100. The plane was late leaving because too many passengers are allowed to board planes with carryon bags that are too large for the overhead compartments so they stand in the aisle pounding the thing in. This means that the next passenger has no room to store a bag and further delays boarding by seeking a different loacation. Multiply this by a hundred and you have delays of 20 minutes. Everyone I spoke with in Florida had the same experiences on other flights and the same delays. My luggage was not searched leaving Ft. Lauderdale but the bottleneck on board was the same because of too large carryons was the same.

Anybody seriously think that shit teams like UCLA, Memphis State, and most of the rest have any chance at all in the NCAA? Teams that can't win their own conferences or can't win their conference tourney should stay home and cry. Only interest in early rounds is local and for degenerate gamblers. Ratings will be shit, again.

I could end Global Poverty in a single growing season by giving poor countries genetically engineered food. It won't happen because that would hurt EU farmers.

Firefox is now bad because their pop up blocker doesn't work any more. Their Thunderbird emailer is also not nearly as good as Outlook Express. It was just a matter of time before enterprising hackers figured an easy way to job the system.